Stephane: I think that the use of the local timezone make it easy for people to look it up on the agenda. I do agree that inclusion of UTC as well would have been very helpful. I'll try to remember to do that in the future. Russ On Oct 30, 2013, at 4:13 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:10:08AM -0400, > IAB Chair <iab-chair@xxxxxxx> wrote > a message of 54 lines which said: > >> The Technical Plenary session is expected to be popular. It will be >> held on Wednesday, 6 Nov 2013 at 0900 PST, > > Why why why using a local timezone when announcing a live broadcast, > which will be seen by many people anywhere in the world? > > Do note also that there are three different timezones in the world > which are named PST. Not everyone lives in North America! > > IETF must use only UTC when announcing a worldwide event. >